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A49
world
October 20, 2013 www.guardian.co.tt Sunday Guardian
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MATURITY
DATE
ISSUE
NO.
AMOUNT
$000
TERM
ISSUE
DATE
AUCTION
DATE
Applications will be accepted from ten (10) working days prior to the auction date. The
deadline for submission of tenders to the Domestic Market Operations Department of the
Central Bank is 12:00 noon on the auction date.
Central Bank of Trinidad
and Tobago and must accompany each tender. Cheque payments must be submitted no later
than three (3) working days prior to the auction date.
Competitive tenders can be submitted for any amount up to the issue size and must state the
price the bidder is willing to pay for each $1,000 of the face value being applied for. Competitive
bids may be rejected if the face value of the entire issue is allocated at higher bid prices or if
made to a bid that is rejected.
bidder agrees to accept the weighted average price of the successful bids determined in the
competitive auction.
For competitive tenders, payments must be in the amount of the total cost of the bills; for
non-competitive tenders, payments will be equivalent to the face value being applied for.
The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago invites tenders
from the public for the following issue:
TREASURY BILL AUCTION
Central Bank of
Trinidad & Tobago
ISSUE
NO.
ISSUE
DATE MATURITY
DATE
FACE VALUE
ALLOTTED
$000
AVERAGE
DISCOUNT
RATE
1397
09.09.13 10.03.14
75,000
998.90
0.22%
1401
16.10.13 15.01.14
75,000
999.75
0.10%
AVERAGE
PRICE PER
$1,000
Results of Tender for Treasury Bill numbers 1397 and 1401:
www.central-bank.org.tt/content/treasury-bills or call
1402
75,000
91 days
28.10.13 30.10.13 29.01.14
1403 100,000
182 days 31.10.13 04.11.13 05.05.14
RIO DE JANEIRO---Oh, the glories of
Rio that await spectators and athletes
at the 2016 Olympics: those beaches,
that music, the dramatic mountains.
And then there are a few thousand
alligator-like creatures slithering
through sewage-like lagoons.
Some 5,000 to 6,000 broad-snouted
caimans live in fetid lagoon systems
of western Rio de Janeiro, conserva-
tionists say, and there s a chance that
visitors could have an encounter with
one, though experts hasten to add that
the caimans, smaller and less aggressive
than alligators or crocodiles, are not
considered a threat to humans.
Some of the animals have already
taken refuge in ponds being built inside
the Olympic golf course, which abuts
a once pristine mangrove-filled lagoon
that s now thick with tons of raw
sewage pumped from nearby high-end
condominiums.
In fact, with two decades of anarchic
growth decimating natural habitats,
the hardy caimans have become an
increasingly common sight in the urban
heart of western Rio, drawn in part by
the scraps tossed to them by humans.
The district is the main hub for 2016
Games and site of the Olympic village,
though most events will take place in
indoor facilities. One exception is the
golf course, where some caimans have
taken up residence in lakes. Wildlife
on golf courses isn t uncommon, with
alligators spotted on greens in Florida
and kangaroos bounding around cours-
es in Australia.
"When you have a natural green
space like this it attracts the wildlife,
which is what you want," said Antony
Scanlon, executive director of the Inter-
national Golf Federation. He said the
risk to Olympic players and spectators
is minimal and the construction com-
pany building the course has hired a
reptile specialist to help manage the
animals.
The caimans congregate in a canal
in the affluent Recreio dos Bandeirantes
suburb that s sandwiched between two
busy thoroughfares. Beach-bound
mothers with toddlers in strollers,
neighbours out to walk the dog and
pizza delivery boys pause on a narrow
wooden footbridge over the canal to
observe the caimans, whose brown
colour camouflages them in the brack-
ish, sulfuric waters.
With few fish surviving in the pol-
luted waters, caiman increasingly rely
on handouts from humans, which can
range from raw chicken to crackers,
sometimes still in their plastic pack-
ages. They also feed on birds and the
In this October 14 photo, ecology professor Ricardo Freitas catches a broad-snouted caiman to examine, then
release back into the water channel in the affluent Recreio dos Bandeirantes suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"Caimans are like tanks, a very old species with a remarkable capacity for renovation that allows them to
survive under extreme conditions where others couldn't," said Freitas, who runs the Instituto Jacare, or the
Caiman Institute, which aims to protect the reptiles. "But the fact of the matter is that their days are
numbered if things don't change drastically." AP PHOTO
Thousands of
caimans thrive in
Rio's urban sprawl
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